MPI-SIFFY

"SIFFY" - Slot Is Free For You

This procedure was developed for two main reasons:

• The user who needs to step back from a slot on a short term notice might get lucky to not have to pay for that slot after all.
• Other users (eg. users with fixed samples) get the chance to spend more time on an otherwise heavily booked system.

To offer a slot

If a user finds that he/she can't make it to an already booked slot and it is 24h or less before that slot already, that user is asked to do the following:

1. Cancel the slot out of the booking database.
2. Send an email to lmf-user(@)mpi-cbg.de. It only needs to contain following info in the subject field:

   SIFFY, name of system, time of offered slot (eg. Subject: SIFFY CO1 Olympus FV1000 tomorrow 10-11am)

3. Important: if the offered slot was the last of the day and it gets canceled within 24 hours of the slot starting (ie.: at a time when the previous user has little no chance to know there has been a late cancellation), it is STILL the responsibility of the user who booked the slot originally to switch off the system, if no one else takes it!!!

To take an offered slot

If a slot is offered in the SIFFY emails and another user is would like to take it, that user is asked to do the following:

1. Answer the SIFFY email with "I'll take it" in the text field (don't change the subject field).
2. Log into the LMF/IPF booking database, go to the respective system and book the offered slot as normal.
3. Important: by officially taking the slot, that new user also takes over the responsibility to switch off the system if needed!!!